appoint, discipline, suspend or remove town officers, department
heads or principal deputies or agents of elected and appointed boards
or officers, and other employees, including employees in civil service
positions, for whom no other method of selection is provided by this
charter or general or special laws, consistent with the town's
personnel policies and subject to the terms of any applicable collective
bargaining agreements; provided, however, that the town administrator
shall keep the chair of the select board, or the chair's designee,
informed as to status of all personnel decisions made or to be made
hereunder and shall consult with the appropriate department head or
principal deputy or agent prior to hiring an employee for that department;
provided further, that appointments or removals of town officers,
department heads or principal deputies or agents of elected and appointed
boards or officers made by the town administrator under this clause
shall become effective on the fifteenth day following the day notice
of proposed appointment or removal is filed with the select board
unless said board, within that period, rejects such appointment or
removal, or has sooner voted to affirm it and copies of notices of
proposed appointments, as filed with the select board, shall simultaneously
be posted on the town bulletin board; provided further, that the town
administrator shall consult with the select board prior to appointing
a finance director under section 8-1-2; and provided further, that
such appointment shall be subject to this clause.